Improved method of hanging doors



N.PETERS. PHoYo-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON, D. C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIGE.

GEORGE W. HOLLY, OF LOW MOOR, IONA.

|MPROVED-METHOD OF HANGING DOORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 58,827, dated October16, 1866.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. HOLLY, of Low Moor, in the county ofClinton and State of Iowa, have invented a newand Improved Mode ofHanging Gates and Doors; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable thoseskilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, inwhichvFigure 1 is a side view of a pair of doors hung and arranged tooperate according to my invention; Fig. 2, a plan or top view of thesame; Fig. 3, a side view of a gate hung according to my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre spondin g parts.

rEhis invention consists in hanging a gate or door by means of pivotedbars and guides in connection with braces, all being arranged in such amanner that the gate or door may slide and open and close freely, theinvention being capable of being applied to any of the known forms ofgates or doors in use, which may be arranged so as to open and close bya sliding movement.

A A, Fig. l, represent two sliding doors, tted in a framing or casing,B. To each door A, at its lower end and both sides, there are connected,by pivot a, the lower ends of bars C. The upper ends ot' these bars haveeach a pin, D, projecting horizontally from them, and these pins passthrough slots E, made in the posts Z) of the framing or casing, and toeach post b, at its lower part, there is secured by a pivot, c, a bar,F. The upper ends of these bars are pivoted to the bars G, as shown atd. The bars C, at one side of the doors, are connected to their inner orfront edges, and said bars, at the opposite sides of the doors, areconnected to the outer edges of the same.

The slots E serve as guides for the bars C, and they are curved, asshown in Fig. l. The doors, it will be seen, by this arrangement aresupported by the bars F, and the bars O control the movement of thedoors, the curvature of the slots E, which are of slight cymaform,causing the doors to slide in a horizontal direction, or nearly so.

These doors may be moved, opened, and closed directly by hand; or theupper ends of the bars O may be connected by metal plates or rods e toarms f j", which are keyed on shafts G, in the top of the framing orcasing, at right angles to each other. By turning these shafts first inone direction and then in the other, the arms and straps or rods, bytheir action on the bars C, will open and close the doors.

It will at once be seen that the doors, in consequence of beingsupported by and working upon the pivoted bars F, will slide easily, andthat the curvilinear movement made by said bars F in opening and closingthe doors is compensated for by the bars C, which are pivoted at theirlower ends to the lower parts of the doors, and by their movement causethe doors to slide about horizontally, the curvature of the slots Eaiding in effecting this movement.

I do not confine myself, however, to any precise shape of slots E. Theymay be modified in form and still effect the saine result. Some degreeof curvature would be necessary in all cases where a horizontal, ornearly horizontal, movement of the doors is desirable.

In Fig. 3, my improvement is shown applied to a gate. H represents thegate, having the lower end of a bar, I, pivoted to each side of it andto opposite ends, near its bottom. The upper ends of the bars I areprovided with horizontal pins g, which work in slots h in the innersides of the gate-posts J J, and to the lower parts of the posts J Jthere are pivoted the lower ends of bars K, the upper ends of the latterbeing pivoted to the bars I, as shown at The lower end of the rear bar Kis adjustable with the posts J J, a slot, 7c, being made in the lowerpart of the post to which the bar is pivoted.

When the gate His opened and closed, it will be seen that 011e bar, I,rises as the other falls, and the same may be said of the bars O of thedoors A A, as said bars are connected to opposite ends of the gate anddoors.

The slots h in the posts J J of the gate are curved at their lower ends,as shown at j in Fig. 3. This curvature admits of the gate settling downas it reaches an open and a closed position, the gate being raisedslightly as the Having thus described my invention, I claim pins g passout of the lower curved ends of as new and desire to secure by LettersPatthe slots h. ent- I would rem ark that any proper attachment The armsf f and rods e, arranged and opermay be applied to the doors or gatesfor the ating relatively with the bars C F and door purpose of operatingthem from a carriage or A, substantially as described, for the purposefrom a horse; and I would further remark specified.

that a spring-catch may be used to engage With the pins D of the bars Cin order to se- GEORGE W' HOLLY' eure the doors in a closed state. Anysuita- Witnesses:

ble fastening, however, may be employed for AMHERs'r RUSSELL,

this purpose. H. W. HOADLEY.

